Anticipating a spiritual afterlife for Solyndra
The curtain is lifting. Last week Veritaspac suggested that the “climate change alarm”, so vigorously embraced and aggressively promoted by two of the world’s most influential leaders had less to do with their professed deep concern about “man-made climate change” and more about the opportunities the “phenomenon” presents to advance a Marxist economic agenda which both seem to so obviously share affection for. This week the Vatican appears to have tipped its hand quite publicly.
As it has been very recently reported, a high level Vatican spokesman has said that the imminent horrors of “global warming” are going to require a new economic “development model”. (Hmm, can one suppose that “free economies” are not likely to be a part of a “new” model, given the Pope’s aversion to a capitalist system, “fettered” or “unfettered”). The Pope’s forthcoming “climate change” encyclical will coincide nicely with Obama’s push, with the help of the UN, to adopt massive global wealth transfers, strict limits on those evil fossil fuels, and with predictable accompanying huge “crony capitalist” rewards to “green” companies whose owners contribute heavily to the administration to aid its agenda.
Meanwhile, the Catholic left is eagerly preparing to promote the Pope’s “message” far and wide, and probably in their typically heavy handed way: Catholics Organize toPromote Pope’s Climate Change Message . The 5/24/15 AP article made it everywhere, including here. No doubt through their own “social justice commissions”, parishes and their pastors will be pressured to indoctrinate the flock in Pope Francis’s ideas on how to “save the planet, eliminate poverty, and save their souls”. (So far, in my own parish, (DLH) there’s been no mention yet of the Pope’s “climate change” opinions. No doubt, our spiritual leaders must await the Vatican’s direction…and I don’t think when it comes, the direction will be subtle.).
Helping out as best they can, some Catholic diocesan papers are all ready in full swing, particularly the knee jerk liberal champions /chronically lame on conservative matters ilk such as the Davenport Catholic Messenger. Their regular opinion page contributor Fr. Bud Grant* who we suspect thinks it all went downhill after the invention of fire and that wheel thing, created this article, very questionably titled: Back to the Garden: Earth is God’s and we are its stewards . The theological undertones of that need more of a Biblical exegesis than we can muster but our instincts and inspiration from our own Catholic schooling says something is fundamentally wrong with the conceit about man it portends. Were we not, so to speak, kicked out of the Garden, and didn’t Babel fall? This from a fairly milquetoast treatment of the subject in Christianity: About.com:
God came to see their city and the tower they were building. He perceived their intentions, and in His infinite wisdom, He knew this “stairway to heaven” would only lead the people away from God. He noted the powerful force within their unity of purpose.
So man is perfectible and back to the garden we go?
From an essay, “A Pope and a President . . . ” in Veritaspac May 23rd:
“Both are aggressive in promoting the “Climate Change” doctrine. Neither acknowledges it as a movement with a true aim of a near total upheaval in the distribution of the world’s wealth, resources, and dominate political environment. Something they both have rather openly endorsed. Both rely on the United Nation’s dubious justification for drastic economic action to alleviate the effects on the world’s “poorest” from the so-called “climate change”.
Appearing May 24, 2016 in the blog, “Legal Insurrection” Pope Francis’ Eco-Encyclical: Marriage Between Green Tech and Economic Growth? :
“They have it backwards of course. The fact is that access to cheap energy drives economic growth and leads to better health and material well being. The Church would rob the remaining billion poor in the world, who do not even have electricity, the opportunity to progress as we all have. This is a truly disastrous posture for the Church to take.”
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Now as regards that “Biblical” marriage thing . . . this HotAir.com Allahpundit article about the same-sex marriage vote in Catholic Ireland is notable. From it we glean that basically the part of Roman Catholicism there that was not already in support of installing gay marriage in the nation’s constitution, decided to roll over. From allahpundit’s article:
“All of this explains why Archbishop Martin decided that the Catholic Church would not lead the opposition to a Yes vote on gay marriage in Friday’s referendum. He would vote No, he said, but added: “I have, however, no wish to stuff my religious views down other people’s throats.”
The contrast to the Catholic left’s enthusiasm for “climate” activism (and what it implies for forced redistribution) with how much they held for protecting the right to life and traditional marriage (no throat shoving in those matters) we predict will be stark. There is much insight in the article (and some things we would argue with) but this analogy towards the end we think has a lot going for it to explain the capitulation of much of America to the left’s constant ratcheting.
One has to think that many of the “advances” our opponents are making is because people are simply tired of conflict. Like the parent that eventually buys the child the sugary cereal if they promise to not speak for the rest of the time they are in the store, many of the people who now support same-sex marriage are doing so just to make them shut up. Which, also like the parent that concedes to the child’s demand for the cereal, in the end only leads to more demands.
It is sometimes the bane of conservatism not to be “reactionary” when a firm NO and even good slap is what is called for.
DLH with R Mall
This pope is pimping for the golden calf crowd.